These files contain documentation --correspondence, memoranda, annual reports, and budgets --from various organizations of
interest to the Los Angeles Regional Office, arranged aphabetically. They also contain internal MALDEF correspondence produced
by and sent to the office between 1968 and 1971, as well as correspondence and memoranda sent to and produced by the San Antonio
Office.

MALDEF contracted with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to provide representation for clients pursuing
Title VII employment discrimination cases.

Scope and Contents Note

This series contains correspondence, project memoranda, and funding reports related to MALDEF's cooperation with the EEOC
in pursuing Title VII (employment discrimination) cases. The correspondence is organized by the name of the person who generated
or received it.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Bank of America

Community Education and Activation Project (CEAP) [MALDEF]

Estrada, Esther

Estrada-Melendez, Jesus

Heidelberg, James.

Rivera, Edward M.

Rosen, Sanford Jay

Roybal, Rose Marie

Smiley, Mary

Tufts, Nathan

Weingart Foundation

Box 44, Folder 12

Correspondence [Ed Rivera] [1 of 2]

Box 45, Folder 1

Correspondence - Smiley, Mary September 1973-October 1974 [1 of 2]

Box 45, Folder 2

Correspondence - Smiley, Mary September 1973-October 1974 [2 of 2]

Box 45, Folder 3

Correspondence, Smiley, Mary September 1974-November 1974

Box 45, Folder 4

Equal Employment and Opportunity Commission project memoranda

Box 45, Folder 5

Rosen memos

MALDEF - EEOC subject files

Historical Note

In 1973, MALDEF contracted with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to provide Title VII representation
in cases of alleged discrimination. In 1980, MALDEF's direct representation in these cases ceased, but the Area Bar Assistance
Referral Program was initiated to provide referrals to private lawyers.

MALDEF contracted with the United States Equal Opportunity Commission to provide legal representation to clients filing Title
VII employment discrimination cases.

Scope and Contents Note

These files contain closed MALDEF-EEOC employment discrimination cases. The first section is shelved in alphabetical order;
cases in the second section are arranged in order of original EEOC case numbers.

The Area Bar Assistance Regional program was operated by MALDEF under contract with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commision.
The program provided services and case assistance to attorneys representing plaintiffs in employment discrimination matters.

Scope and Contents Note

This series contains correspondence, memoranda, documentation of conferences, case files, lists of potential cases, and a
MALDEF survey of federal employment discrimination cases.

MALDEF's federally-funded Area Bar Assistance Referral program, working from the Los Angeles Regional Office, provided documents
for individuals representing themselves as plaintiffs in their own employment discrimination cases. It also referred plaintiffs
to other attorneys. The program, which began in 1979, also maintained contacts with the bar and the community, trained attorneys
in the handling of EEOC cases, and maintained a brief bank for use in such cases.

This series contains information from potential employment discrimination cases, surveys regarding hiring practices, documentation
of the Title VII project, monthly reports from various regional offices in 1977 and 1978 regarding the EEOC project, and EEOC
regulations. Also in these files are speaker lists, mailing lists, and other information on MALDEF's Title VII conference
for local attorneys.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Avila, Joaquin J.

Baller, Morris J.

Community Education and Activation Project (CEAP) [MALDEF]

Employment Discrimination and the Law Conference

Estrada, Esther

Moreno, Mercedes U.

Roybal, Rose Marie

Steiner, William H.

Title VII conference

Vasquez, Ruben B., Jr.

Weingart Foundation

Box 72, Folder 1

Ruben Vasquez miscellaneous: Freddy Cortez [closed files]

Box 72, Folder 2

Ruben Vasquez miscellaneous: Imperial County

Box 72, Folder 3

Ruben Vasquez miscellaneous: correspondence file

Box 72, Folder 4

Ruben Vasquez miscellaneous: Morell vs. Lucero and ORS

Box 72, Folder 5

[Closed files]

Box 72, Folder 6

Ruben Vasquez miscellaneous: Maria Christina Weitham

Box 72, Folder 7

Ruben Vasquez miscellaneous: Jaime Rey

Box 72, Folder 8

Re: proposed uniform guidelines on employee procedures [1 of 2]

Box 72, Folder 9

Re: proposed uniform guidelines on employee procedures [2 of 2]

Box 72, Folder 10

Potential employment discrimination [1 of 3]

Box 72, Folder 11

Potential employment discrimination [2 of 3]

Box 73, Folder 1

Potential employment discrimination [3 of 3]

Box 73, Folder 2

Research - Department of Labor regulations of federal contract compliance

Box 73, Folder 3

Research file: Aguilar vs. Los Angeles Unified School District

Box 73, Folder 4

Research file - United States Supreme Court brief in Rodriquez vs. E.T.M.F. and Teamsters Local Union 657 and Southern Conference
of Teamsters

Employment Discrimination and the Law conference, November 5, 1976 - accounts receivable

Box 76, Folder 19

Correspondence - San Antonio, 1977

Box 77, Folder 1

Employment Discrimination and the Law Conference, November 5, 1976 - communications

Box 77, Folder 2

Employment Discrimination and the Law Conference, November 5, 1976 - programs

Box 77, Folder 3

Employment Discrimination and the Law Conference, November 5, 1976 - accounts payable

Box 77, Folder 4

Employment Discrimination and the Law Conference, November 5, 1976 - guest lists

Box 77, Folder 5

CEAP - open house July 13, 1978

Box 77, Folder 6

Employment discrimination conference, 1976 - keynote speech

Box 77, Folder 7

Los Angeles Daily Journal ad - paid conference ticket requests

Box 77, Folder 8

Nevada training conference

Educational Leadership Program files, 1981-1983

Historical Note

In 1980, with funding from the Weingart Foundation, MALDEF initiated a College Training and Counseling Program to help Latino
junior high school students embark on a four-year college track. MALDEF arranged for speakers to lecture about college and
related issues at the students' schools and arranged field trips to U.C. campuses for the students.

Scope and Contents Note

This series contains certificates of recognition, calendars, correspondence, progress reports, attendance sheets, timelines
for completion of the project, financial proposals, and questionnaires filled out by the student participants in the program.
It also contains CEAP monthly reports for the period from June to December, 1980, letters from students, mailing labels, and
various documents pertaining to the functioning of several California school districts.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Community Education and Activation Project (CEAP) [MALDEF]

Estrada, Esther

Godina, Vincent

Roybal, Rose Marie

Vasquez, Ruben B., Jr.

Weingart Foundation

Box 77, Folder 9

Leadership certificate June 6,1983

Box 77, Folder 10

Calendars (2) 1982

Box 77, Folder 11

Educational Leadership Program yellow binder

Box 77, Folder 12

Educational Leadership Program blue binder

Box 77, Folder 13

Leadership Program - 1981-1982

Box 77, Folder 14

Student questionnaire #1 August 1981

Box 77, Folder 15

Preliminary questionnaire

Box 77, Folder 16

Leadership Program June 1981

Box 77, Folder 17

Leadership Program September 1981

Box 77, Folder 18

Leadership Program October 1981

Box 77, Folder 19

Leadership Program November 1981

Box 77, Folder 20

Leadership Program December 1981

Box 77, Folder 21

Leadership Program January 1982

Box 77, Folder 22

Leadership Program April 1982

Box 77, Folder 23

Leadership Program May 1982

Box 77, Folder 24

Nimitz Junior High School attendance sheets 1981-1982

Box 77, Folder 25

Stevenson Junior High School attendance sheets 1981-1982

Box 77, Folder 26

Correspondence file January 1982

Box 77, Folder 27

Correspondence file February 1982

Box 77, Folder 28

Correspondence file March 1982

Box 77, Folder 29

Leadership Program - correspondence

Box 78, Folder 1

Work completed (Roybal)

Box 78, Folder 2

Work to be done (Roybal)

Box 78, Folder 3

Weingart proposal

Box 78, Folder 4

Program schedule/agenda 1982-1983

Box 78, Folder 5

Leadership project reports

Box 78, Folder 6

Leadership Program files

Box 78, Folder 7

Stevenson questionnaires 1982-1983 [1 of 2]

Box 78, Folder 8

Stevenson questionnaires 1982-1983 [2 of 2]

Box 78, Folder 9

Nimitz questionnaire 1982-1983 [1 of 2]

Box 78, Folder 10

Nimitz questionnaire 1982-1983 [2 of 2]

Box 78, Folder 11

Speaker awards

Box 78, Folder 12

Nimitz certificates awarded

Box 79, Folder 1

Stevenson awards

Box 79, Folder 2

I-T-P-S Stevenson

Box 79, Folder 3

I-T-P-S Nimitz

Box 79, Folder 4

Miscellaneous

Box 79, Folder 5

C.E.A.P. monthly report, June 1980-December 1980

Box 79, Folder 6

Agendas

Box 79, Folder 7

Certificates

Box 79, Folder 8

Labels - Stevenson

Box 79, Folder 9

Labels - Fall 1981 resource speakers

Box 79, Folder 10

Labels - Garfield

Box 79, Folder 11

Meetings

Box 79, Folder 12

Students' letters

Box 79, Folder 13

Students' evaluations

Box 79, Folder 14

Weingart proposals

Box 79, Folder 15

Stevenson Junior High School

Box 79, Folder 16

Garfield High School [1 of 2]

Box 79, Folder 17

Garfield High School [2 of 2]

Box 79, Folder 18

Lincoln High School [1 of 2]

Box 79, Folder 19

Lincoln High School [2 of 2]

Box 79, Folder 20

Attendance roster - Nimitz

Box 80, Folder 1

Nimitz Junior High School 1981-1982 [1 of 4]

Box 80, Folder 2

Nimitz Junior High School 1981-1982 [2 of 4]

Box 80, Folder 3

Nimitz Junior High School 1981-1982 [3 of 4]

Box 80, Folder 4

Nimitz Junior High School 1981-1982 [4 of 4]

Box 80, Folder 5

Stevenson Junior High School - 1981-1982

Box 80, Folder 6

Garfield High School roster

Box 80, Folder 7

Lincoln High School roster

Box 80, Folder 8

May 1980 (CEAP)

Box 80, Folder 9

June 1980

Box 80, Folder 10

July 1980 (CEAP)

Box 80, Folder 11

August 1980 (CEAP)

Box 80, Folder 12

September 1980 (CEAP)

Box 80, Folder 13

October 1980 (CEAP)

Box 80, Folder 14

November 1980 (CEAP)

Box 80, Folder 15

December 1980 (CEAP)

Box 80, Folder 16

January 1981 (CEAP)

Box 80, Folder 17

February 1981 (CEAP)

Box 80, Folder 18

March 1981 (CEAP)

Box 80, Folder 19

April 1981 (CEAP)

Box 80, Folder 20

May 1981 (CEAP)

Box 80, Folder 21

Labels - advisory group

Box 81, Folder 1

Year-end program report

Box 81, Folder 2

Resource speakers

Compton Unified School District Investigation

Scope and Contents Note

These files contain correspondence, news clippings, proposed budgets, and other documents related to the staff and operations
of the Compton School District.

Compton Unified School District - proposed budget 1977-1978/summary of income and expenditures

Box 82, Folder 2

Compton Unified/bilingual teacher waivers

Box 82, Folder 3

Compton Unified School District/bilingual lay-offs

Box 82, Folder 4

Compton Unified/miscellaneous

Box 82, Folder 5

Compton Unified School District / press clippings

Staff Attorney files of Angel Manzano, Jr., 1979-1981

Scope and Contents Note

This series contains correspondence, briefs, legal documents, and case materials arranged in alphabetical order by name of
case. Among the topics included are several folders pertaining to the Federal Employment Survey, California reapportionment,
LULAC v. Salinas, Mosquera v. Department of Public Social Services, Oxnard Police Officers' Association v. City of Oxnard.
They also contain office files, which include memoranda and research related to both a new issues committee and to a 1980
reorganization of office responsibilities, as well as material related to the Asilomar and Clear Lake Staff Training Conferences.
There are also training conference materials and memos regarding MALDEF issues and reorganization.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Baller, Morris J.

LULAC

Manzano, Angel

Steiner, William H.

Box 82, Folder 6

Attorney Nancy Adle

Box 82, Folder 7

Aguilar vs. KSCI

Box 82, Folder 8

Aguirre vs. Carbonic Products

Box 82, Folder 9

Alcazar vs. Los Angeles Job Corps

Box 82, Folder 10

Analo Graphics

Box 82, Folder 11

Arizona/ORS

Box 82, Folder 12

Astorga

Box 82, Folder 13

Cansino vs. Busch

Box 82, Folder 14

Cervantes vs. California State College San Bernardino

Box 82, Folder 15

CETA/San Bernardino

Box 82, Folder 16

CFA vs. Los Angeles Community College District

Box 82, Folder 17

Chavarria vs. UCSB [University of California, Santa Barbara]

Box 83, Folder 1

COSA

Box 83, Folder 2

Committee for Objective Promotional Procedures vs. State of California

The goal of the Los Angeles County Census Project was to enhance Chicano community awareness of the importance of an accurate
census count in 1980;the project created a slide show and used media outreach to achieve this.

Scope and Contents Note

This series contains materials related to the 1980 census undercount, including court complaints, draft papers, monthly project
reports, media materials, maps, notes, monthly reports, working materials used to carry out a recount, funding proposals,
correspondence, project descriptions, and scripts of MALDEF's census-related slide program "Ahora Sí." They also contain the
correspondence of the Census Advisory Committee, press releases, and government publications. The first folder of the first
box contains an index of the subsequent material.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Atlantic Richfield Corporation

Castruita, Felipe

Cooperativa de Campesinos de California

Juarez, Liza

Ramirez, David E.

Suarez, Robert H.

Vera, Eva

Census undercount --California --Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.

Box 92, Folder 7

Census 1980 - LA-CA-5 [list of folders]

Box 92, Folder 8

Letter carriers campaign/Barron/Adler key census contact

Box 92, Folder 9

Los Angeles census project employment - United States Census Bureau

Box 92, Folder 10

Sears complaint [1 of 2]

Box 92, Folder 11

Sears complaint [2 of 2]

Box 92, Folder 12

Los Angeles census project reapportionment - draft paper

Box 92, Folder 13

Census program materials - report

Box 92, Folder 14

Los Angeles 1978 census project reports - 1978 (monthly) [1 of 2]

Box 93, Folder 1

Los Angeles 1978 census project reports - 1978 (monthly) [2 of 2]

Box 93, Folder 2

Ramirez's media materials

Box 93, Folder 3

Dev. Lit. re: media/Ramirez

Box 93, Folder 4

1980 correspondence - census suit

Box 93, Folder 5

Los Angeles census project Census Advisory Committee - correspondence

Box 93, Folder 6

Los Angeles census project - mock-ups

Box 93, Folder 7

Los Angeles census project - census consultant contract

Box 93, Folder 8

Cooperativa de Campesinos de California census contacts

Box 93, Folder 9

Slide script and work

Box 93, Folder 10

Los Angeles census project maps - references

Box 93, Folder 11

Los Angeles census project notes to file

Box 93, Folder 12

June 29th (1978) Hilton meeting (press release) (outreach)

Box 93, Folder 13

Los Angeles 1978 census project community council

Box 93, Folder 14

Your guide to 1978 National Test survey

Box 93, Folder 15

Los Angeles census project 'Spanish' identifiers

Box 93, Folder 16

Los Angeles census project statistical and demographic information

Box 93, Folder 17

Facts re: filmstrips (Fr. Holmes) visual aids

Box 93, Folder 18

Los Angeles census project Pacific/Asian census task force

Box 93, Folder 19

Third World population - Dymally.

Box 93, Folder 20

Current population report: population characteristics (August 1978) Spanish origin

§602 of P.L. 95-81, The Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations Act of 1978/petition

Box 97, Folder 4

Te Ve Revista/Mr. Ruben Loera

Box 97, Folder 5

Census Advisory Committee correspondence

Box 97, Folder 6

Labor/unions

Box 97, Folder 7

Denver, Colorado census presentation

Box 97, Folder 8

Data user workshop in Los Angeles

Box 97, Folder 9

[Los Angeles County target areas]

Box 97, Folder 10

La Raza (Colorado)

Box 97, Folder 11

[E.E.O. plan - 1977]

Box 97, Folder 12

[E.E.O. plan FY-78]

Box 97, Folder 13

Manhattan materials

Box 97, Folder 14

[Graphs]

Box 97, Folder 15

[Miscellaneous] [1 of 3]

Box 97, Folder 16

[Miscellaneous] [2 of 3]

Box 97, Folder 17

[Miscellaneous] [3 of 3]

Reapportionment files

Historical Note

MALDEF attempted to increase the political access of Mexican Americans through a variety of means, including lawsuits for
reapportionment of voting districts. The suits aimed to increase the likelihood that Latinos could be elected in proportion
to their numbers in the population. imes for only a few months at a time, in various other cities where projects were conducted.

Scope and Contents Note

The files in this series contain literature on reapportionment, correspond-ence, maps of current and potential voting districts,
legal research, and case files.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Community Education and Activation Project (CEAP) [MALDEF]

Duran, Percy

Estrada, Esther

Ortega, Joe C.

Roybal, Rose Marie

Weingart Foundation

Box 98, Folder 1

State reapportionment [1 of 4]

Box 98, Folder 2

State reapportionment [2 of 4]

Box 98, Folder 3

State reapportionment [3 of 4]

Box 98, Folder 4

State reapportionment [4 of 4]

Box 98, Folder 5

LA/72/56 new state reapportionment correspondence

Box 99, Folder 1

Garcia vs. Brown - reapportionment literature [1 of 2]

Box 99, Folder 2

Garcia vs. Brown - reapportionment literature [2 of 2]

Box 99, Folder 3

Garcia vs. Brown - reapportionment literature - signed retainers

Box 99, Folder 4

Garcia vs. Brown - reapportionment [1 of 2]

Box 99, Folder 5

Garcia vs. Brown - reapportionment [2 of 2]

Box 99, Folder 6

Reapportionment correspondence [1 of 2]

Box 99, Folder 7

Reapportionment correspondence [2 of 2]

Box 100, Folder 1

Reapportionment legal research [1 of 2]

Box 100, Folder 2

Reapportionment legal research [2 of 2]

Box 100, Folder 3

Coalition for fair reapportionment

Box 100, Folder 4

Pleadings

Box 100, Folder 5

Affidavits

Box 100, Folder 6

Reapportionment - correspondence Los Angeles city

Box 101, Folder 1

Reapportionment: miscellaneous

Box 101, Folder 2

Research

Box 101, Folder 3

Plaintiffs on city reapportionment suit

Box 101, Folder 4

Reapportionment - Los Angeles city [1 of 3]

Box 101, Folder 5

Reapportionment - Los Angeles city [2 of 3]

Box 101, Folder 6

Reapportionment - Los Angeles city [3 of 3]

Box 101, Folder 7

Publicity

Series 8. Sacramento Program Office

Historical Note

In 1968, MALDEF opened its headquarters in San Antonio, along with a branch office in Los Angeles. These two offices were
later joined by the San Francisco office, which became MALDEF headquarters in 1971. MALDEF also opened a branch in Washington,
D.C. in 1975, and maintained a short-lived office in Denver in 1971 which reopened in 1980. A Chicago office was also opened
in 1980. Temporary offices were opened, sometimes for only a few months at a time, in various other cities where projects
were conducted.

In 1986, the first year the Sacramento Program Office is listed in an annual report, the Office's Legislative Advacacy Staff
consisted of Carolina Flores, (Policy Analyst from 1985 to 1987) and Oralia Polendo. Eric Vega worked as Policy Analyst in
1987, alongside Secretary Toni Garcia. In 1992, Garcia was still working as secretary in the office; Claudia Martinez and
Dennis Lopez worked with her as Policy Analysts, (Lopez left during 1992). In 1993-94, Toni McGowan (possibly né García) and
Martinez left the Office; Felix de la Torre, State Policy Analyst, remained.

Policy Analyst Programs were set up in Washington, D.C., Sacramento, CA, and San Antonio/Austin, Texas, "to enable individuals
to learn the legislative process" and to monitor policy. In the Sacramento Office, analysts focused on policy related to school
board representation, the Immigration Reform and Control and Reform Act, English only laws, and Bilingual Education, among
other things.

Series 9. San Antonio Regional Office

Historical Note

The San Antonio Office was MALDEF's headquarters from 1968 through 1970. In 1971 it became a regional office with Eduardo
Idar as associate counsel. When Idar left in 1974, staff attorneys James Heidelberg and then later Patricia Vasquez served
as acting associate counsel. In 1975, George Korbel, a former VISTA attorney for MALDEF, was hired as associate counsel. When
Korbel left in 1976, Joaquin Avila became associate counsel and directed the San Antonio office until mid-1983. Several special
projects operated from the San Antonio office: Joaquin Avila directed the Voting Rights Project while associate counsel, and
Patricia Vasquez directed the Chicana Rights Project. The South Texas Prisoners' Rights Project was based there, as was the
Texas Census Project. The EEOC funded legal services, and later through the ABAR program, support for local attorneys engaged
in employment discrimination work.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Area Bar Assistance Referral Project

Lawyer referral service--United States

Associate Counsel records of Eduardo Idar, 1970-1973

Scope and Contents Note

This series contains administrative files, including employee regulations, minutes of Board of Directors meetings, docket
reports, annual reports, correspondence filed by last name of sender, and publications; they also include subject files, on
prisoners' rights, migrant labor, urban renewal and other topics. The files are organized under Title headings which do not
correspond to MALDEF title headings: individual correspondence is filed under Title I, conferences under Title II, organizations
under Title III, federal employment matters under Title IV, education under Title V, abuse of authority under Title VI, consumer
protection under Title VII, voting rights under Title VIII, public accomodations under Title IX, municipal services under
Title X, migrants under Title XI, immigration and naturalization under TitleXII, Housing and Urban Renewal under Title XIII,
media under Title XIV, rights of political association and expression under Title XVI, criminal procedure under Title XVII,
juvenile delinquency under Title XVIII, criminal law under Title XIX, and requests for assistance in criminal cases and civil
investigations under Title XX, federal programs under Title XXI, litigation under Title XXII, and taxation under Title XXIII.

Proposed Litigation - United States Civil Service Commission Suit [1 of 2]

Box 167, Folder 9

Proposed Litigation - United States Civil Service Commission Suit [2 of 2]

Associate Counsel records of George Korbel, 1974-1976

Scope and Contents Note

This series of files includes administrative records, forms, correspondence, trip files, proposed litigation, cases which
MALDEF declined, minutes of board meetings,and memoranda. Korbel worked as a VISTA attorney in the office from 1971 to 1973.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Almaguer, Sylvia

American Issue Forum

Bandera Training Seminar

Byrd, Robert

Garcia, Rebecca

Guajardo, Tony

Korbel, George

Legal Services Corporation

Martinez, Vilma

Palacios, Dolores

Rosen, Sanford Jay

Salinas, Guadalupe

Box 167, Folder 10

Administrative Records and Forms

Box 167, Folder 11

The American Issue Form (A.I.F.)

Box 167, Folder 12

Announcements for Job Offerings

Box 167, Folder 13

Correspondence to and from Attorney General Hill

Box 167, Folder 14

Forms

Box 167, Folder 15

Korbel, George J. - Miscellaneous

Box 168, Folder 1

Korbel, George J. - Miscellaneous

Box 168, Folder 2

J.L. and J.R. vs. Parham

Box 168, Folder 3

Materials on the Legal Services Corporation (H.R. 7005 and Testimonies before House Judiciary) [ 1 of 2 ]

Box 168, Folder 4

Materials on the Legal Services Corporation (H.R. 7005 and Testimonies before House Judiciary) [ 2 of 2 ]

This series contains correspondence, memoranda, resumes, case materials, subject files, research materials, minutes of meetings
of the MALDEF Executive Committee and Board of Directors, and other materials generated by Joaquin Avila during his tenure
as Associate Counsel of the San Antonio Regional Office of MALDEF from 1976 to 1982. They also contain subject files arranged
alphabetically, which include time sheets, travel documentation, work notes, census information, immigration information,
interoffice memoranda, trust account materials, legal memoranda, publicity, voting rights and law school teaching materials.

The files also contain materials related to Avila's activities as Director of MALDEF's Political Access / Voting Rights Project
between 1976 and 1982; including such topics as reapportionment, gerrymandering, irregularities in voter registration procedure,
and other violations of the one person-one vote principle.

Related materials can be found in the Voting Rights Project files located in MALDEF's Legal Program Department records. Avila
was an attorney in the San Francisco office from 1974 to 1976, and was President and General Counsel of MALDEF from 1983 to
1985.

In October, 1978 MALDEF received a planning grant from the federal Community Services Administration to conduct a nine-month
planning project involving selected Hispanic communities in the Southwest and Midwest regions of the United States. Working
with Community Activation Program representatives in each city, and through on-site visits, CEAP representatives sought to
determine the needs of the communities, contact the CSA Community Action Agencies serving the Hispanic poor in the communities,
identify a role for MALDEF, and seek remedies for the Hispanic poor through these links. A project report prepared in July
1979 described the results of this endeavor. Information regarding the cities chosen for this project has also been filed
under "CEAP target cities".

This series is the general correspondence and memoranda sent within, from, and to the San Antonio office, arranged in chronological
order. It includes information on activities in MALDEF's main office and in the various regional offices, and documents relationships
between the San Antonio office and the community at large. The correspondence follows the planning of several programs and
policies over time.

The performance evaluations and the evaluative parts of individual personnel files have been restricted until 2060.

Scope and Contents Note

This series contains the files of the administrative task force, job description questionnaires, resumes and job descriptions
of paralegal and attorney and law clerk applicants, indexes of the office filing system and dockets of cases, case memoranda,
correspondence, performance evaluations, and individual personnel files.